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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Chandra Bhimull’s “Empire in the Air“and Kyle Mays’ “Hip Hop Beats”
30 Oct 2018
An author disentangles transatlantic slavery and transatlantic flight; another writer imagines a world where Black and Indigenous Lives actually matter. “How race and racism shaped the advent of airline travel.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Theory 101: Common, Gaddafi, and the Global Significance of the Black Misleadership Class
30 Oct 2018
The legitimacy of the US Black misleadership class resides in its ability to distort and claim leadership over the legitimate struggles of Black Americans to further their own careers within the ruling structure. “Black Agenda Report was the only voice on the left in the United States to…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: American Terror Is Not New
30 Oct 2018
The casual, endemic and racist violence that characterizes American behavior at home and abroad cannot be laid at the doorstep of the current buffoon in the White House. “The most prevalent racially motivated murders are carried out by police across the country.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Bernie and Barbara: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
31 Oct 2018
How can Bernie Sanders or Barbara Lee keep any of their social democratic promises while scapegoating Russia? “Endorsing Greens, or even independents, is not in the script that might win him the Dems’ 2020 presidential nomination.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Fascism is Real, But the “Resistance” is Mostly Fake
31 Oct 2018
Fascism is always a danger under capitalism, with its frequent crises and endemic white supremacy, but the phony “resistance” is only concerned about electing Democrats. “The history of capitalism begins in the holds of slave ships.”
Alvette Ellorton Jeffers
A Knowing Deception: The Eve of Antigua and Barbuda Independence
01 Nov 2018
People who were born a few months before 1967 and those born in 1981 have never experienced white political rule in Antigua or Barbuda. They have never lived under a plantocracy or know what it means not to vote or denied the right to choose which trade union to belong to. They grew up knowing the…
$Letters from Our Readers$
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Nov 2018
This week's articles got passions flowing on the subject of electoral politics in a duopoly arena.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracy Sharpley-Whiting’s “Bricktop’s Paris“ and Magdalena J. Zaborowska’s “Me and My House”
07 Nov 2018
Our authors explore the Black experience in Europe, past and present, and mine the deep reservoir of wisdom that is James Baldwin.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Back to the Dark Ages
07 Nov 2018
Russiagate is an invented hysteria, a psy-op and propaganda operation that distorts the political realities of both Russia and the US. A Review of Ron Ridenour’s The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert (Brewster, NY: Punto Press, 2018). “Ridenour considers the Russia-Gate investigation to be a…
Nina Wallace
This Isn’t the First Time White Supremacists Have Tried to Cancel Birthright Citizenship
07 Nov 2018
Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship is yet another attempt to make the US a “White Man’s Country, and threatens all people of color. “California Attorney General U.S. Webb argued that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were made entirely “by and for White people.”